EXTENDED DEADLINE: ABSTRACTS DUE JANUARY 20
CFP: Form and Politics in Louis Zukofsky's "A" (1/20/03; ALA 5/22-25/03)
A panel proposed for the
American Literature Association Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2003
Hyatt Regency Cambridge
575 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 01239
This panel invites papers that explore the intersection of politics and
poetic form in Louis Zukofsky's epic poem "A."
Topics are not limited to:
Subjectivity and High Modernist Form: The "Eyes" of "A"
The Politics of Illegibility
"A:" Between Pound and the Proletarian
History, Form and Ideology in "A"
Postmodern Lyric: Formal Shifts and Developments in "A"
Commodity Form and Poetic Form
Avant-Gardism and the Popular Front
"A"'s Dialectics: Historical Time and Revolutionary Poetics
The High Modernist Cantor: Jewish Lyrical Form in "A"
Musicality and Representation: Ideologies of Form
"A"'s Objects: The Politics of Abstraction and Particulars
American History and the Progression of "A"
Race, Class and Popular Cultural Forms in "A"
Zukofsky, Louis and Celia: Gendered Politics of Composition
"A" and the Politics of Language Poetry
Deadline: January 20, 2003
Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words, and C.V. if available, to
Ruth Jennison, ruthj@uclink4.berkeley.edu
or via mail to
Ruth Jennison
University of California, Berkeley
Dept. of English
320 Wheeler Hall
Berkeley, CA
94720
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Ruth Jennison
University of California, Berkeley
Dept. of English
320 Wheeler Hall
Berkeley, CA
94720
tel. 510-666-0560
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